Brent Gleeson
Navy SEAL combat veteran and bestselling author helping organizations build resilience, lead through change, and drive elite performance.
Why you should book Brent Gleeson for your next event
- Founder and CEO of EXCELR8, a high-impact performance consultancy helping companies scale talent, culture, and strategic execution.
- Widely recognized Forbes columnist delivering trusted, practical leadership insights that inspire action and impact across global teams.
- Combines elite military leadership and business success to enhance focus, discipline, and results in dynamic environments.
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From Battlefield to Business: Culture That Drives Results
Bestselling author, Navy SEAL combat veteran, and award-winning entrepreneur Brent Gleeson delivers high-impact keynotes that inspire action and transform organizations. Drawing from battlefield experience and business leadership, he equips teams with proven strategies to lead through change, build resilient cultures, and drive high performance with precision, discipline, and purpose.
Brent Gleeson is a Navy SEAL combat veteran, award-winning entrepreneur, and bestselling author who brings the mindset of elite military teams to the business world. With degrees in finance and economics, an MBA, and additional studies at Oxford University, he combines academic insight with battle-tested experience to help organizations thrive in high-stakes environments.
As the founder and CEO of EXCELR8, a leadership and performance consultancy, Brent works with companies worldwide to build high-performing teams, strengthen culture, and lead through change with precision and purpose. His keynotes are grounded in the principles that shaped him as a Navy SEAL—resilience, discipline, accountability, and execution under pressure.
Brent is the author of Embrace the Suck and TakingPoint, both bestselling books that translate combat leadership into actionable strategies for business. He’s also a regular Forbes leadership columnist and has worked with Fortune 500 companies across industries.
His keynotes are high-energy, story-driven, and designed to create immediate impact. Audiences walk away inspired, aligned, and equipped with tools they can put into practice.
Book Brent Gleeson for your event and deliver a keynote experience that motivates, transforms, and gets results—fast.
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Keynotes
Keynote by Brent Gleeson: All in: How high-performance teams lean in & level up
In today's volatile, unpredictable, and complex business environment, organizations can find themselves in an almost constant state of change.
In this highly engaging presentation, Brent Gleeson shows the audience how to apply the same leadership, mindset, behavior, and culture principles that forge the most elite special operations units in the world to build high-performing, resilient, and adaptable teams.
Gleeson will not only leave the audience inspired and motivated but also provide an actionable framework for continuous improvement that can be applied in all areas of life and work.
Audience takeaways:
- Brent draws connections between how high-performance teams in any environment can leverage trust, teamwork, and accountability to achieve their goals. He provides tools for improving trust that have a measurable economic impact on any organization.
- How to build a culture of accountability, have game-changing effects, and drive a team to achieve more than expected.
- Actionable principles for managers to use in leading an organization through change.
Keynote by Brent Gleeson: Built to rise: leading change, building trust, and driving relentless performance
Brent Gleeson delivers high-impact keynotes rooted in his experience as a Navy SEAL, entrepreneur, and bestselling author. His talks are built around the core principles of elite performance—resilience, trust, accountability, and execution. With powerful stories and actionable strategies, Brent inspires teams and leaders to embrace change, align culture with strategy, and perform under pressure.
Each keynote is designed to challenge, motivate, and equip audiences with the tools they need to lead with clarity and win in dynamic environments.
Brent offers keynotes on the following topics:
- Leading & Managing Change
- Aligning Leadership, Culture, & Strategy
- Building a Culture of Accountability
- Measuring and Improving Trust
- Principles of High-Performance Teams
- Increasing Resilience & Fortitude
- Overcoming Adversity
- Pushing Beyond Your Comfort Zone
- Crushing Impossible Goals
- Mastering Mindset Transformation
